Conservative CNN contributor Shermichael Singleton implored Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday to extricate himself from the efforts of a key adviser to get the FDA to revoke the decades-old polio vaccine approval.
Appearing with host John Berman, Singleton was asked about a report in the New York Times that RFK Jr's advisor, Aaron Siri, "is waging war against vaccines of all kinds."
Focusing on the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk in 1955, the CNN conservative first observed that it saved the life of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) when he was a child.
ALSO READ: The reckoning: Plenty of hurts coming for the people who didn't care about their country
"There's some things I just don't think we should really mess with, John, if I'm just being candid," he told the host. "It's one thing to say, look, let's look at why more younger people are being diagnosed with cancer, for example, and let's figure out a way to spearhead that research and provide more funding via HHS, or maybe we're looking at other issues that the American people are struggling with."
"I'm all for that," he continued. "But stop messing with things where we have 100 years of research to showcase its efficacy and the effect. You know, you sort of start losing a lot of credibility. Even the president-elect is saying, 'Wait a minute here.' Now, I'm skeptical on this because this appears to be a bridge too far.
"So, if I'm RFK and you're going before some of these senators, you don't want to go before them saying, "Hey, I may remove the polio vaccine,' because there are a lot of Republicans who are going to say, 'Okay, man, I'm willing to give you an opportunity here to articulate your case, to win over my support, right? But when you start to remove things where we have decades and decades of data that shows that it works, it was a great thing, it saved millions of lives decades ago, you start to make people doubtful of your real ability to lead the agency well."
"So if I'm RFK, I wouldn't move forward with this," he advised.
- YouTubeyoutu.be
